N24.de
&
N24.de Munich
They used to recommend flash junk for a complete
view, but it works OK without.
Their city search box (@ 2014-03-18) accepted Munich
& München with an umlaut; but not
"Muenchen", it also offered to accept German post
codes, but as most of world doesn't have umlaut
keyboards & may not know post codes, they've
effectively relegated Muenchen & München to
be local names, & promoted the only useful
international name of the city to be Munich.

DWD Small near
useless map from a government agency that seems far
more interested in selling its specialist services
than being of help to its German tax payers with
anything so mundane as a general weather forecast.
Try them last. Their fax service on 01905. costs 2
DM/minute

German public (inc. TV etc)
obscurely & verbosely talk of
"Litres pro Quadrat- meter" of
rain ignorant that is just "Milli-
Metres" ! (One rare Germanic
exception that gets it right: meteoblue in mm, (as
also BBC TV World Service in mm (not
inches) @ 2013-06)). If you don't
understand, get a physicist, or
engineer etc (of any nationality inc.
German) to explain it to you:

eg drinking glass or old
tin can eg a fruit can, "mais" / corn
or baked beans tin. Can be a big
family tin, or a small one, or a
really small tomato sauce tin, or a
spaghetti jar. No, size does Not
matter , just needs to be vertical
inside. (Though a sardine can is no
good: rain may bounce or blow
out)

One does NOT need
to pour the water out into a
measuring flask & measure or know
the diameter of the receptacle to get
a pointless "Litre per Quadrat-
metre" !

Just put a ruler in
vertically or next to the container !
The ruler should not have an end
piece, else subtract length of end
from the reading. A steel ruler is
better than cheap plastic, as
thinner, & displaces negligible
water.

Do it, & you have
reality - a simple scalar linear
measure - not a foolish volume
divided by area.

Most drinking glasses
don't have vertical sides, avoid
them, in particular a Bavarian weiss-
bier glass, unless you will do the
math. of reducing Litres per quadrat
Metre back to milli-
metres

Precision

Even a vertical sided
drinking glass has a small curve at
the base which makes it slightly
inaccurate.

Professionals often use
precision stainless steel funnels,
leading to tubes feeding a narrow
diameter giving more precise vertical
measurement, & housed lower where
it may be warmer & not freeze so
easily. They need to calculate
internally with litres per quadrat
metre back to reality : Milli-
metres.

The German public talk in
"Litres per Quadrat- Meter" out of habit
& ignorance (Most as in any country
don't understand basic physics ), misled
by their weather broadcasters who fail to
translate verbose & opaque "Litres
per Quadrat- Meter", into simple Milli-
Meters.

Seeing a tin can with 1 cm of
rain in it speaks plainest, be it in city
or on a farm.
Very few need Litres per Quadrat-
Kilometre (not metre ;-) & they are
river & dam flood managers, who can
calculate units.

Foreign eyes notice
easier:

In England we measured
rain in "Inches" (mm now I
presume)

In Germany one would
expect "Centi- Meters" or "Milli-
Meters".

On hearing verbose &
opaque "Liters Per Quadrat- Meter"
one first wonders what it is, &
if one should convert to pints per
square foot ? Then one realises how
ridiculous that would be & how
ridiculous "Litres Per Quadrat-
Meter" is.

PS: Spellings: English:Litre ;
German Liter; French:Litre
Best use French spelling as part of
Napoleonic system).

Remote Destinations

Italia Trento: by uk.weather.com 10 day Forecast
- but WHY are they "9c feels like 7c (Updated 26
September 2006 12:55 Local Time (Tuesday, 10:55 GMT)"
when CNN show a range of 8 to 19 (& Munich by my
thermometer at 13:13 is 18c) Also mail to
webmaster@uk.weather.com to report the error bounced
(timed out after 5 days)

Walchen- see Wind: If there's 100 cloudless
sun in the morning & early PM, shining on the steep
mountain opposite, there should be good wind on Walchen-
see (source: jhs editor).
vor allem wenn die Strömung auf Sued-Ost dreht,
dann ist am Walchen- see bekanntlich tote Hose. Source:
ahochst@_ERASE_dillingen.baynet.de on a surf news group I
recall